The Elementary Syndrome.

The Elementary Syndrome.
Intro.

So, I was thinking last night, as I lulled to sleep on a tiny love-seat, my buzz slowly exchanging itself for nightly oblivion, I was wondering about cigarettes. I was imagining returning to my old campus for a day, where I'd probably hang out with everyone outside of Powers Hall, where everyone smokes. I mean it. EVERYONE.

This got me to wondering, how many of those kids smoked before going to school? Certainly not in high school. I mean, a few, but only the stoners, with girls that wore pants so huge and long and dirty, and guys that wore girl's pants with a purple mohawk. The point is, the minority.

And then, I got to thinking of it in reverse. High schoolers smoke the least, college students the most, and then adults the.... huh... Some adults smoke alot. Some don't. Some quit, some are quitting, some are addicted... it's tough to say. Now, in retrospect, I realize it's tough to generalize everyone into one big 'adults' category. But, at the time, it led to another idea:

Once you get out of school, get into the mundane repetition of work-work-work everyday, at the same place, for a 9-5 job, years can go by without anything really changing.

Like, you can say, 'most adults do not smoke' or whatever, but when speak about kids, it's often times done in many, very short stages. When you're seven to when you're eight, is vastly different, whereas twenty seven to twenty eight is less so vast. I mean, for the twenty seven year old, major things can happen, but it's generally just basic modifications to the normal. But when you turn eight, or nine, or whatever, up until somewhere around middle school, (fading more and more every year, it seems) your whole world, like, completely changes every single different year. You change grades, you out grow nearly all of your clothes, you learn completely different things, you gain access to a completely different portion of your world---it's like you're living a completely different life than the year before. It's exciting!

This is where I considered the Elementary Sydrome. That is, keeping this incredible, vibrant, active and eventful lifestyle is a good thing, that should not be traded for the mundane, however comfortable it may be. Before we're born, we culminate in warm comfort, and then spend a great deal of the rest of our life seeking comfort---but nothing good comes from it! I mean, yes, it's nice, and alright, but were you comfortable the first time you tried to ride a bike? Or right before your first kiss? Or right before you did anything major, important, life-improving? It's not usually 'comfortable' to write papers, go to school, make phone calls, get a job, actually work at that job, fall in love, do anyting really.

THUS, what I call the Elementary Syndrome is keeping that lifestyle in elementary school.

Yeah. It's why I came up with the to-do list, I've decided. Part of the reason, at least.

I've thought of other things, too... I'll write those later today. But this is good for one post, I think.